1924 in science

• Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky is working on a manuscript of the work “Spaceship”, first published only in 1947 .

• February 1 - Alexey Bezborodov , Soviet, Russian microbiologist, biochemist.
• March 11 - Franco Bazaglia , Italian psychiatrist, neurologist, professor of psychiatry, reformer of the psychiatric care system, developer of Law 180, leader of the Democratic Psychiatry movement (d. 1980 ).
• May 12 - Alexander Yesenin-Volpin , mathematician , human rights activist .
• June 14 - James Black , Scottish pharmacologist (d. 2010 ).
• July 1 - Mammadsadyg Abdullaev , anatomist, histologist (d. 2006 ).
• July 7 - Natalia Bekhtereva , Soviet and Russian neurophysiologist (d. 2008 ).
• July 28 - Masgut Ayukhanov , economist (d. 2000 ).
• August 4 - Vladimir Benderov , Soviet test engineer of aviation equipment (d. 1973 ).
• August 19 - Willard Boyle , American physicist of Canadian descent, Nobel laureate in physics for 2009 (d. 2011 ).
• September 6 - Mikhail Braichevsky , Soviet and Ukrainian historian and archaeologist (d. 2001 ).
• September 15 - Ivan Artyomenko , Soviet archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, professor (d. 1989 ).
• November 7 - Ninel Borisova , neurologist, honorary academician of the Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
• November 10 - Mikhail Fedorovich Reshetnev , Soviet designer, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, head of space systems development (d. 1996 ).
• November 26 - Mikhail Bongard , an outstanding Soviet cybernetics, one of the founders of the theory of pattern recognition (d. 1971 ).
• November 29 - Aitmuhamed Abdulin , geologist-search engine, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences (d. 2010 ).
• December 11 - Charles Bachmann , an American scientist in the field of computer science, in particular database development.
• December 27 - Mark Babushkin , Soviet scientist in the field of management problems (d. 2003 ).

• January 13 - Georg-Hermann Quincke , German physicist (born 1834 ).
• February 6 - Ludwig Graff , Austrian zoologist (born 1851 ).
• February 11th :
  • Dmitry Kaygorodov , Russian forester, specialist in the field of forest technology, ornithology, teacher and popularizer of natural sciences, the “father” of Russian phenology (b. 1846 ).
  • Jacques Loeb , German-American physiologist and biologist (born 1859 ).
• March 11 - Niels von Koch , Swedish mathematician (born 1870 ).
• March 22 :
  • Vladimir Arnoldi , Russian botanist, morphologist and algologist (born 1871 ).
  • William McEwan , Distinguished Surgeon, Apprentice of Joseph Lister. One of the founders of neurosurgery (b. 1848 ).
• April 2 - Johaness Warming , Danish botanist, ecologist, algologist, mycologist, microbiologist (b. 1841 ).
• April 5 - Victor Gensen , German zoologist (planktologist) (b. 1835 ).
• April 24 - Nikolai Kravkov , Russian pharmacologist, founder of Soviet pharmacology (b. 1865 ).
• April 27 - Nikolai Andrusov , Russian geologist, stratigraph, mineralogist, paleontologist (b. 1861 ).
• April 30 - Fedor Buchholz , mycologist, professor at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (b. 1872 ).
• June 22 - Franz Wolf , German botanist, geologist, professor of geology and mineralogy (b. 1841 ).
• June 28 - Johann Nickel , German and Polish Catholic theologian and teacher; Doctor of Theology ^[1] .
• July 13 - Alfred Marshall , English economist, founder of the neoclassical trend in economic science (born 1842 ).
• July 31 - Giovanni De Toni , Italian chemist, doctor, mycologist, pteridologist and algologist (born 1864 ).
• August 27 - William Bayliss , English physiologist (born 1860 ).
• September 6 - Axel Geykel , Finnish ethnographer and archaeologist, professor at the University of Helsinki, one of the founders of Finno-Ugric ethnography (born 1851 ).
• October 8 - James Britten , British botanist (born 1846 ).
• October 24 - John van Denburg , American herpetologist (born 1872 ).
• November 10 - Archibald Geiki , Scottish geologist (born 1835 ).
• November 14 - Klimenty Gankevich , Ukrainian philologist, linguist, writer, ethnographer, translator (born 1842 ).
• December 2 :
  • Kazimeras Buga , Lithuanian linguist, professor-philologist, researcher of the Lithuanian language (born 1879 ).
  • Hugo von Zeliger , German astronomer, specialist in stellar astronomy, astrophysics and celestial mechanics (b. 1849 ).
• December 8 - Karl Larsen , famous Norwegian polar explorer (b. 1860 ).

Nobel Prizes

• Physics - Manne Sigban - "Discoveries and research in the field of X-ray spectroscopy."
• Chemistry - no prize was awarded.
• Medicine and physiology - Einthoven, Willem - "For the discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram."

Henry Draper Medal

• Joel Stebbins .